Democracy and Public Space: The Physical Sites of Democratic Performance

In an online, interconnected world, democracy is increasingly made up of wikis and blogs, pokes and tweets. Citizens have become accidental journalists thanks to their handheld devices, politicians are increasingly working online, and the traditional sites of democracy--assemblies, public galleries, and plazas--are becoming less and less relevant with every new technology. And yet, Democracy and Public Space argues, such views are leading us to confuse the medium with the message, focusing on electronic transmission when often what cyber citizens transmit is pictures and narratives of real democratic action in physical space. Democratic citizens are embodied, take up space, battle over access to physical resources, and perform democracy on physical stages at least as much as they engage with ideas in virtual space. Combining conceptual analysis with interviews and observation in capital cities on every continent, John Parkinson argues that democracy requires physical public space, that some kinds of space are better for performing some democratic roles than others, and that some of the most valuable kinds of space are under attack in developed democracies. He argues that accidental publics like shoppers and lunchtime crowds are increasingly valued over purposive, active publics, over citizens with a point to make or an argument to listen to. This can be seen not just in the way that traditional protest is regulated, but in the ways that ordinary city streets and parks are managed, even in the design of such quintessentially democratic spaces as legislative assemblies. Democracy and Public Space offers an alternative vision for democratic public space, and evaluates 11 cities--from London to Tokyo--against that ideal.

Politics & Social Sciences

Parkinson, John

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Deliberative democracy has challenged two widely-accepted nostrums about democratic politics: that people lack the capacities for effective self-government; and that democratic procedures are arbitrary and do not reflect popular will; indeed, that the idea of popular will is itself illusory. On the contrary, deliberative democrats have shown that people are capable of being sophisticated, creative problem solvers, given the right opportunities in the right kinds of democratic institutions. But deliberative empirical research has its own problems. In this book two leading deliberative scholars review decades of that research and reveal three important issues. First, the concept 'deliberation' has been inflated so much as to lose empirical bite; second, deliberation has been equated with entire processes of which it is just one feature; and third, such processes are confused with democracy in a deliberative mode more generally. In other words, studies frequently apply micro-level tools and concepts to make macro- and meso-level judgements, and vice versa. Instead, Bachtiger and Parkinson argue that deliberation must be understood as contingent, performative, and distributed. They argue that deliberation needs to be disentangled from other communicative modes; that appropriate tools need to be deployed at the right level of analysis; and that scholars need to be clear about whether they are making additive judgements or summative ones. They then apply that understanding to set out a new agenda and new empirical tools for deliberative empirical scholarship at the micro, meso, and macro levels.

Mapping and Measuring Deliberation: Towards a New Deliberative Quality

Bächtiger, André

Politics & Government

Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris

Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris

History

Franklin Classics

Developing the ICT Capable School

This book helps readers to improve the development of ICT capability through understanding the factors at work in whole school contexts. Based on research that examined schools' approaches to the development of pupils' ICT capability and identified the factors which lead to success, it provides practical advice, but with clear justifications in terms of well-researched principles and illustrations. It covers issues specific to both primary and secondary phases of education together with a range of common concerns and will be of use to practitioners and school staff involved in planning and delivering ICT training. This title will therefore provide readers with: Greater understanding or personal ICT capability Knowledge of effective management, teaching methods and co-ordination strategies for ICT Understanding of the importance of a whole school approach

Education & Teaching

Tanner, Howard

Kennewell, Steve

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

This book is designed specifically for students training to teach ICT as a curriculum subject at secondary level. It develops the key ideas of teaching and learning ICT in a structured, accessible way, and provides a wealth of ideas and inspiration for the learning teacher. Key areas covered are: <ul>
<li>the place and nature of ICT as a curriculum subject</li> <li>analyzing and developing subject knowledge</li> <li>planning schemes of work, individual lessons, activities and resources</li> <li>monitoring, assessment and exams</li> <li>ICT across the curriculum</li> <li>differentiation and special educational needs</li> <li>professional development.</li>
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Throughout the book there are useful tasks and activities to help student-teachers analyze their own teaching and explore the knowledge and skills needed to become a successful teacher of ICT. Rooted in best practice and up-to-the-minute research, this book is also the ideal refresher for more experienced ICT teachers.

Learning to Teach ICT in the Secondary School: A Companion to School Experience (Learning to Teach Subjects in the Secondary School Series) (Volume 1)

60 Minute Software: Proven solutions for software developers and MIS professionals. 
The latest volume in the revolutionary Ernst &amp; Young Information Management Series provides an in-depth examination of a key issue concerning IS development: cycle time compression in the development of business software—and its impact on the ability of businesses to meet new customer, product, or market requirements. Based on a three-year study by Ernst &amp; Young's Center for Business Transformation, 60 Minute Software offers a variety of practical solutions that can be implemented quickly and efficiently. Acceleration strategies that have been used by such companies as Ameritech, IBM, and Hewlett Packard, among others, are analyzed in-depth. The results are of vital importance in light of the increasing demands on IS professionals in a technology-driven environment. 60 Minute Software examines: <ul>
<li>Strategic vs. tactical improvement issues.</li> <li>Myths that slow down the improvement process.</li> <li>Why some cycle times can't be compressed—and shouldn't be.</li> <li>Management styles for processes with different characteristics.</li> <li>Projected vs. actual effects.</li> <li>Strategies that have decelerated process times.</li> <li>How fast can we really get? The limits to cycle time compression.</li> <li>Implementing a cycle time reduction program. By identifying the main problems with cycle time compression, offering strategies to address them, and reviewing the successes—and failures—in applying acceleration strategies, 60 Minute Software points to the lessons to be learned from the efforts of leading IS organizations, and the best practices they have developed. </li> </ul>

60 Minute Software: Strategies for Accelerating the Information Systems Delivery Process (Ernst & Young Information Management Series)

Computers & Technology

Ernst & Young, LLP

Programming

wiley

Explains how companies can productively use development effectiveness, an offshoot of total quality management, to ease problems regarding changing technologies in the information services organization by providing tools for change while still creating high-performance IS organizations. Contains proven implementation steps for planning and managing IT transitional processes along with the instruments relevant to measure the IS organization's current position, readiness for and ability to change.

Development Effectiveness: Strategies for IS Organizational Transition

Business & Money

Merlyn, Vaughan

Management & Leadership

This is the complete, unabridged republication of the first (1629) edition of John Parkinson's 'Paradisi in Sole,' the first of the great English books on garden flowers and gardening. Parkinson's text is remarkably accurate throughout and is by far the most reliable account we have of gardens of Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

A Garden of Pleasant Flowers: Paradisi in Sole Raradisus Terrestris

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Dover Publications

Complete republication of first (1629) great book on England Elizabethan and Jacobean gardens. Remarkably accurate and delightful account describes nearly 1,000 flowers, herbs, vegetables and fruit trees. Includes over 800 woodcuts, Latin and familiar plant names, physical description and indication of plant origins, and much more.

A Garden of Pleasant Flowers: Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris

Dover Pubns

First published in 1971. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Tour Through Russia, Siberia And The Crimea 1792-1794 (Russia Through European Eyes,)

Russia

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